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02 Webtext Hacking Alert

  • 16-01-2012 03:27AM
    #1
    Ailleacht
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭


    Hello All,
    I use webtext a lot. Yesterday I woke up to send a text and found I had no credit left despite having about 120 to use. I checked my sent messages and found a text sent out to probably 100 australian numbers with the following message....

    Your Mobile # won £900,000 in the Apple Inc. Mobile Promo. Claim Code: IPAD.To claim, email bank/personal details for direct transfer to [email address]

    My account has been hacked and all it takes is an active o2 number and a password scanner program. my password is a good one that makes no sense but it was hacked.

    My advice possibly change your password/make it longer!

    I have been on to O2 and we will see if they get back to me/do anything. I could do with my brillant webtexts.....

    ....PB[/email]
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Comments

  • #2
    FSL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭FSL


    There are quite a few spam texts being sent to O2 customers saying top up with €20.00 for unlimited free calls and texts to Irish Mobiles with a link to a website starting with O2.

    You didn't by any chance click on the link or follow it and log in.


  • #3
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Taken from this thread in the Talk to O2 forum.
    If you have followed the link and entered your O2 Online account details, log on to the actual O2 Online account and change your password immediately. If you can no longer log in, contact O2 by phone, or a PM to the Telefonica O2 Reps account immediately. Your account has then been compromised, and your account is now being used to send the same spam on.

    Since you say you have been in touch with O2, all you can really do at this stage if you can't change your password is to wait and hear back from them.


  • #4
    _AVALANCHE_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭_AVALANCHE_


    Whether or not you followed a spam link, the O2 Reps are going to say you did.


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